Signal means.



F. A. TIFFT.

SIGNAL MEANS,

APPLICATION FILED 1m 1. 1916.

1,2825143. Patented 0a.. 22, 1918.

f VENTOR WITNESSES ATTORNEY red FRED A. rrrrr,

0F CORNISH, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

SIGNAL MEANS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Hot. 22, 1918.

Application filed January 7, 1916. Serial No. 70,860.

carrying lights but Will not'b the present invention is to for apprising drivers of giving them sufdanger of an ac- Another object resides in the form of frame acsignal means which consistsof a commodating a reflecting surface and such reflecting surface and frame being held in place by the same screws.

With the above and other by way of illustration.

n t e accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of an automobile having the device of plied thereto,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged elevation of the device removed from t e vehicle,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the same,

ig. 4 is a sectional view on the line H of Fig. 3, and, v

Fig. 5 is a diagrammatic view showing the evice in position on the left-hand front mud guard of a vehicle.

In detail:

The device comprises the frame A consisting of the-bottom 1, sides 2 and 3 and 4, such top 4 being slotted as shown at The members 1, 2, 3 and 4 are provided my invention aptical modifications with lugs-6 which are apertured to receive screws 7. The bottom member 1 is provided with a groove 8 which receives the lower edge of a reflector, which may be of glass or metal highly polished and having In t e operation of the device the same of the vehicle behind that another vehicleis in his path and he may guide his vehicle accordingly.

Also the device may be mounted, as shown in Fig. 5 upon the front left-hand mud guard of a vehicle and in that proaching vehicle from a forward direction will have the advantage of vehicle carrying the device and may be guided accordingly in turliliing out for the same since the light of suc mud guards which usually treme outer portion of the vehicle.

hile in the foregoing I have described a specific embodiment of the present invention, it is nevertheless to that, in practice I as fall Within the scope of the appended claim.

0 aim:

A reflector frame of rectangular shape having grooves in the inner faces of its end and bottom members and a slot in its top member, a reflecting plate inserted in said i eea ree frame through said slot and having its boting engagement With the upper edge of said it? tom and ends engaged in said grooves, the plate.

upper edge of said plate being disposed bein testimony whereof I affix my signature low the upper edge of said top member, and in presence of: tWo Witnesses.

5 a screw passing through said top member FRED 1X ,HFFT above the upper edge of said plate for hoiding the frame upon a body, preventingup- Witnesses: Ward movement of said plate and forcing GEORGE A. ROWELL,

the portions of said top member into oiamp- WYLLYs A, Rewrew. 

